AppTag Laser Blaster - Real World First Person Shooter!

AppTag Laser Blaster from Jon Atherton on Vimeo.

AppTag Laser Blaster brings first person shooter console gameplay to smartphones in the real world. Obviously, as with any blaster toy, the object is to shoot your friends! The AppTag does the shooting and the smartphone keeps score and tracks everything else, the App even adds Augmented Reality objects such as medkits, armour, weapons and ammo packs! 

For targeting we use a focused infrared beam and sensor for the 'laser' so it's totally safe. Each unit has an IR sender and receiver, and the AppTag unit works together with an attached smartphone or iPod Touch.


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Motorola Droid 4 review

I always like a QWERTY phone, and Motorola never fail to deliver.  Would this be replacing my Atrix?  :P  Read more below from the Hand Ons by Tech Radar.

CES 2012: The thinnest LTE QWERTY phone in the world

By Nic Vargus

Motorola recently announced the Droid 4, a 4G LTE-compatible QWERTY phone that will hit retailers in coming weeks.

The first thing anyone will notice about the phone is how sleek and Razr-esque it feels in your hand.

It's a QWERTY phone with a slide-out keyboard, but upon first handle it felt a bit like a slightly chunky touch phone.

That's because at .5-inches it's surprisingly thin - thin enough for Motorola to bill it as the world's thinnest LTE QWERTY phone.

But all that wouldn't much matter if the keyboard was garbage, and we're happy to report that we were able to quickly type on it, without having to relearning much of anything.

The keyboard is edge lit so you type in the dark with rounded keys that help you find the tiny buttons you're looking to type.

The Droid 4 is currently running Android 2.3.5, but should get a bump to Android 4.0 in the first half of the year.

It's slightly more powerful than its predecessor as well. It has a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM, and we tested a variety of intensive apps and each were smooth and fast.

The Droid 4 also has an 8MP rear-facing camera capable of 1080p HD video capture. Our test pictures looked mediocre at best, but we'll wait to pass final judgment for when we have a bit more ideal lighting circumstances (Motorola's booth was exceptionally dark).

Other than that, many of the specs should look familiar. There's the same sized scratch resistant 4-inch display, 16GB internal memory (which can be expanded with up to a 32GB microSD), and LTE Hotspot capabilities.

So how much will this slider cost you? No firm price has been released, but rumors suggest the phone will release for $249 with a two-year contract.

But wait, there's more

Motorola also announced the Droid Razr Maxx, which adds a slight bulk to its wonderfully thin Droid Razr but adds a gargantuan 3300 mAh battery.

We'll let you know when official details surface for either of these phones.

Source: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/hands-on-motorola-droid-4-review-1054069

CES 2012 highlights (by TechRadar)

CES 2012 highlights: what you need to know

Updated: Phones, cameras, computing, TV, gaming and more

WORLD OF TECH NEWS

By Dean Evans

CES 2012 - the greatest tech show on Earth

The world's greatest tech show - CES 2012 - kicked off on Monday 9 January (if you're a show obsessive, note that's a week later than usual).

Running until Thursday, the show sees the entire tech world descend on Las Vegas. We'll be hearing from the biggest names in tech to talk about their plans for 2012. The show covers more than 1.8 million square feet and has more than 140,000 attendees from across the globe.

As for every CES, TechRadar will be there getting hands on with the hardware that matters and bringing you the latest breaking news from the show. We have a dedicated CES 2012 channel where you can keep up with all the news.

Here are our CES 2012 highlights…

The biggest news at CES 2012

LG unveils stunning 55-inch OLED TV
Steve Ballmer gives last ever Microsoft keynote at CES
Microsoft announces Kinect for PC
Sony develops new Crystal LED tech to rival OLED
Intel promises touch-enabled Ultrabooks

CES 2012: Tablets

Without an Apple presence at CES, it's a chance for other manufacturers to show off their tablet devices. But there's not the rush of iPad rivals that you might expect. Poor sales of Android tablets seem to have made the big electronics giants more cautious.

That said, this week we've seen the Acer Iconia Tab A700, which will come packing Ice Cream Sandwich and a huge quad-core processor. Nice.

Toshiba has also jumped back into tablet waters with the new Excite 10, a stylish 10.1-inch Android slab that boasts a 1.2GHz dual-core TI processor and a 1280x800 pixel display.

But it's Lenovo that has turned heads and widened eyes with its two tablet models. There's an Asus Transformer-alike IdeaPad S2 running Ice Cream Sandwich and the quad-core Tegra 3-powered IdeaPad K2, which looks an exciting bit of kit.

What of RIM? Rather than unveil a new Playbook model (that would be sheer madness), the beleaguered Blackberry builder has upgraded its tablet software to version 2.0. We wish we had some groundbreaking features to report. We don't. See for yourself.

CES 2012: Phones

While most manufacturers will be saving their big phone launches until Mobile World Congress in February, several new smartphones have been been spotted on the plush Vegas carpets.

Having absorbed Ericsson into the Sony hive mind, the newest Xperia handsets are the first without any Ericsson branding. The Sony Xperia S is essentially a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc with HD - a 4.3-inch Reality Display (1280 x 700 pixels), a 12MP camera and the promise of Ice Cream Sandwich in Q2.

You can also say hello to the new Sony Xperia Ion, a PlayStation-certified, dual-core (1.5GHz) smart phone with 16GB of internal storage and a 12MP rear camera.

Elsewhere, HTC has upgraded the Titan for AT&T. The HTC Titan 2 is the Same 4.7-inch, 1.5GHz Windows Phone that you might be indifferent to. But it's been souped up with a 16MP snapper, wide angle lens, dual LED flash and LTE support.

The US also gets the Nokia Lumia 800 dressed up as the Nokia Lumia 900. What's new? It's LTE-powered, larger screened (4.3 inches) and has a better front camera.

The LG Spectrum catches the eye with a 4.5-inch IPS LCD that rivals the Retina display on the iPhone 4. While the the Huawei Ascend P1 S and Ascend P1 trumpet Super AMOLED screens and the thinnest chassis on the market.

CES 2012: Laptops

Think the laptop is dead? Far from it. Acer launched the 13.3-inch Aspire S5during its CES 2012 press conference and promised Windows 8 Ultrabooks in the second half of the year.

Forget netbooks, chromebooks and desktop replacement systems. Ultrabooks that pay design homage to Apple's skinny Macbook Air are the new laptop form factor of choice.

Lenovo, for example, has unwrapped its good looking IdeaPad U Series ultrabooks at this year's show - the 13-inch U310 model weighs in at 1.7kg and has a thickness of only 18mm.

Intel believes that tablets can't replace laptop computers and that we'll be even happier with a convertible Ultrabook that runs Windows 8 (and is powered by Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge Intel CPUs. Obviously).

HP's Ultrabook effort is the Envy 14 Spectre, which incorporates a roomier 14-inch (1600x900 pixel) panel and is only 21mm thick. Under the hood there's an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processor, and a 128GB hard drive.

Samsung, meanwhile, joins the Ultrabook club with its Series 5 devices, which will be available in 13- and 14-inch variants with 2nd generation Intel Core i5 engines and Radeon HD graphics.

Samsung also rolled out the second generation of its Series 9 laptops with a refined 'aerodynamic design'.

But the prize for strangest laptop surely goes to Intel's Nikiski see-through notebook. It isn't an Ultrabook (although a thinner version is planned). But it does feature a clever glass touchpad that doubles up as a touchscreen when you close the lid (see below).

CES 2012: HDTVs

Despite the popularity of tablets and smartphones, CES has always been about TVs. Bigger TVs, thinner TVs, Full HD TVs, 4K TVs, OLED TVs and smart Internet-connected TVs. CES 2012 is no different.

One of the stars of the show is LG's new 4mm-thick 55-inch OLED HDTV, which has got Vegas crowds dribbling down their free promotional T-shirts. 4mm. That's thinner than your smartphone. It's quite simply stunning.

Not to be outdone (although it clearly has been), Samsung also promises a 55-inch OLED telly of its own. Could this finally be the year that OLED becomes more than a headline-grabbing technology demo? Our fingers are crossed. Again. Just like last year...

As for Sony, it pressganged Hollywood star Will Smith to look impressed by its prototype Crystal LED technology. Fusing LCD and OLED, the futuristic TV works by packing in six million LEDs to give it OLED levels of clarity, colour and brightness.

In the battle of the BIG screens, LG and Sharp battled it out for the 'biggest 3D TV of the show' award. Sharp came close with its 80-incher, but LG just nabbed the gong with its 84-inch ultra definition (3840 x 2160) set. The 1mm bezel "enhances the illusion that the 3D is borderless."

And if you think 4K2K TV is good, Sharp's prototype 8K panel boasts 7680 x 4320 pixels – that 16x the resolution of HD.

Of course, the next generation of TVs will also be smarter. Sony has plans to play around with Google TV STBs, while Opera has unveiled more about its television app store.

While we wait for an Apple iTV, Lenovo used CES to demonstrate a port of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on a 55-inch TV.

Panasonic, meanwhile, enlisted the help of Justin Timberlake to launch MySpace TV, which will feature on new Viera HDTVs. Does anybody still use MySpace? And can any of them afford a TV? We're not convinced.

CES 2012: Home entertainment

Hands on: Optoma PK32 review

Pico projectors may not have the lustre they had when first released but there's certain companies which keep churning out the pint-sized product again and again.

Hands on: Griffin Twenty review

If you want Apple's AirPlay but don't want to spend hundreds replacing the speakers you've already spent hundreds on, Griffin has a treat for you.

CES 2012: Cameras

PMA@CES Preview video

What can photographers expect to see at CES?

Source: http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/ces-2012-what-to-expect-1042619

Nokia E51 menu frozen

Do you have the problem of having the menu/home button pressed on your E-51, and yet the menu is not displaying/froze?

This is really a strange bug. I had never encountered it before in my previous firmware version till now. I had just updated the phone to 411.34.001, and passed it to my wife.Within the first 2 days, this strange bug happened. All other functions/buttons/shortcuts were working except for the menu.

Had search the nokia discussion forums, and tried out the following and none worked for me.

1) Stick to the GSM network and prevent it from switching between 3G and GSM.
2) Reassigined the left shortcut button to anything, except for menu.

Finally, what works for me is that I need to disable the keypad autolock function. By doing that, it's been good so far. It's 5 days and counting. Keeping my fingers crossed now.Will let you know if it fails too.

Apple plots smartphones powered by hydrogen

Apple is working on laptops and smartphones powered by hydrogen fuel cells that would last for weeks without needing to be refueled, patent filings have revealed

04:33 PM Dec 26, 2011

In two documents submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office, the iPhone maker said its proposal "eliminates the need for a bulky and heavy battery".

A hydrogen fuel cell converts hydrogen and oxygen into water and electrical energy.

The technology has long been touted as a potential power source for cleaner cars. Electronics manufacturers also have shown growing interest in replacing batteries that rely on toxic chemicals with hydrogen fuels cells that would last longer and produce only water as a by-product.

"Our country's continuing reliance on fossil fuels has forced our government to maintain complicated political and military relationships with unstable governments in the Middle East, and has also exposed our coastlines and our citizens to the associated hazards of offshore drilling," Apple says in its patent filings.

"These problems have led to an increasing awareness and desire on the part of consumers to promote and use renewable energy sources."

It also notes that hydrogen fuels cells could be smaller and lighter than batteries, while still powering mobile computers for longer.

"Such fuel cells and associated fuels can potentially achieve high volumetric and gravimetric energy densities, which can potentially enable continued operation of portable electronic devices for days or even weeks without refuelling," Apple said.

The two patents, "Fuel Cell System to Power a Portable Computing Device" and "Fuel Cell System Coupled to a Portable Computing Device" not the first signs that Apple is working to replace battery technology. In October a further pair of patent applications detailed ways of squeezing more power from lighter hydrogen fuel cells.

Battery technology has long been viewed as a bottleneck in the smartphone industry, leading microchip developers to focus on developing processors with lower power consumption. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Source:

http://www.todayonline.com/TechandDigital/Digital/EDC111226-0000062/Apple-plots-smartphones-powered-by-hydrogen

My Motospeak

Try installing it from the android market.

 

iPhone 4S vs The Competition: Spec Showdown Chart

By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld    Oct 5, 2011 6:33 AM

The iPhone 4S may look identical to the iPhone 4, but that's where the comparisons stop. Under the hood the iPhone 4S is full of hardware and software innovations that help Apple catch up with its rivals. Here’s how Apple’s iPhone 4S stacks up against its Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry competitors when it comes to specs.

The iPhone 4S arrives on October 14 (pre-orders start October 7).

Because Apple recycled the iPhone 4 design for the iPhone 4S, the new device can continue to claim the title for the thinnest smartphone in the world, according to advertising regulators, closely followed by the Samsung Galaxy S II. The iPhone 4S has however gained a little bit of weight (from 137 to 140 grams), making the Galaxy S II the lightest in this comparison at 122 grams (4.3oz)

The iPhone 4S now features the same processor found in the iPad 2 – the 1GHz dual-core A5 chip, which is on the par with Motorola’s Droid Bionic, and slightly slower than the 1.2GHz dual-core processor found on AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II. The upcoming HTC Titan and the BlackBerry Torch 9850 (U.S. availability unannounced) do not feature dual-core processors; HTC and Research In Motion used single-core 1.5GHz and 1.2GHz chips instead.

Apple didn’t say how much RAM it packed into the iPhone 4S, although it is expected to have doubled the amount from the previous model to 1GB. The Galaxy S II and the Droid Bionic (as well as most high-end Android phones) feature 1GB or RAM, while the single-core Titan and Torch trail with 512MB and 768MB respectively.

Apple bucked the trend for increasingly larger smartphone displays and kept the iPhone 4S screen at 3.5-inch. In comparison, the Titan has a whopping 4.7-inch display, or 4.3-inch for the Droid Bionic and 4.27-inch for the Galaxy S II. Research In Motion also went for a larger 3.7-inch screen on the Torch, the biggest on a BlackBerry so far.

Although the iPhone 4S has the smallest screen in this comparison, Apple maintained the Retina display, which has the highest resolution and pixel density out of the bunch. The closest match to the iPhone 4S screen resolution is the Droid Bionic, while Samsung’s Galaxy S II has been praised for its sharpness and vivid colors. The HTC Titan has the lowest pixel density.

The iPhone 4S now features an 8-megapixel camera on the back, on par with the Galaxy S II, Droid Bionic and HTC Titan. Apple says it made several improvements to the camera lens and aperture, which would help achieve much better photos -- but these claims are yet to be tested until the phone arrives in the PCWorld labs.

The iPhone 4S will also record 1080p HD videos, like the Galaxy S II and Droid Bionic. The Titan and Torch can record only 720p HD videos. Meanwhile, Apple kept the same VGA camera for video calls on the iPhone 4S, on par with the Droid Bionic, and significantly below the resolution of the Galaxy S II’s 2-megapixel front facing camera. The BlackBerry Torch is the only phone in the comparison without a video-calling camera.

Android App Turns Smartphones Into Mobile Hacking Machines

Security researcher Itzhak "Zuk" Avraham at the Defcon hacker conference. (Click to enlarge.)

Dangerous hacks come in small packages.

Or they will, perhaps, when an app called Anti, or Android Network Toolkit, hits the Android market next week. The program, which Israeli security firm Zimperium revealed at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday and plans to make available to Android users in coming days, is designed for penetration testing–in theory, searching out and demonstrating vulnerabilities in computer systems so that they can be patched. Anti aims to bring all the hacking tools available to penetration testers on PCs to smartphones, with an automated interface intended to make sniffing local networks and owning remote servers as simple as pushing a few buttons.

“We wanted to create a penetration testing tool for the masses, says Itzhak “Zuk” Avraham, founder of Tel-Aviv-based Zimperium. “It’s about being able to do what advanced hackers do with a really good implementation. In your pocket.”

Anti, a free app with a $10 corporate upgrade, will offer a wi-fi-scanning tool for finding open networks and showing all potential target devices on those networks, as well as traceroute software that can reveal the IP addresses of faraway servers. When a target is identified, the app offers up a simple menu with commands like “Man-In-The-Middle” to eavesdrop on local devices, or even “Attack”; The app is designed to run exploits collected in platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB, using vulnerabilities in out-of-date software to compromise targets.

A screenshot from Anti displaying target machines on the local network. (Click to enlarge.)

For now, the demonstration app Avraham showed me was equipped with only a few exploits: One aimed at a bug in Windows–the same flaw exploited by the Conficker worm in 2009–another targeting default SSH passwords in jailbroken iPhones, and a third exploiting a vulnerable, older version of Android. Zimperium has also built a Windows trojan that allows Anti to perform automated commands on hijacked machines like taking a screenshot, ejecting a CD, or opening the calculator, a common penetration-testing demonstration.

Even in its current form, the app raises the possibility of dangerous, stealthy attacks. A hacker could, for instance, walk into a coffee shop or a corporate office with his phone and start sussing out machines for data theft or malware infection. But Avraham says Zimperium will ask users in its terms of service to limit their hacking to “white hat” penetration testing.

Another screenshot showing command options on a target machine, including "man-in-the-middle" and "attack." (Click to enlarge.)

“Hacking is not for the chosen few,” reads one description in the app’s documentation, formatted in Star Wars-style scrolling text. “Anti is your perfect mobile companion, doing it all for you. Please remember, with great power comes great responsibility. Use it wisely.”

Penetration testers who saw the app at Defcon were impressed. “It’s just sick,” says Don Bailey, a researcher with security firm iSec Partners. “The way it populates the screen with vulnerable targets…it’s really elegant.”

Another professional penetration tester for a defense contractor firm who asked that his name not be used called the app a “quick and dirty Swiss army knife for mobile pen testing.” “It’s so polished it’s almost like playing a video game,” he says, comparing it to penetration testing suites that cost thousands of dollars.

With its sheer simplicity, Anti’s impact could be comparable to that of Firesheep, a proof-of-concept tool released in October of last year that allowed anyone to easily snoop on devices on unsecured wi-fi networks that connected to unencrypted web pages. That tool was downloaded more than 1.7 million times, and no doubt used in some instances to spy on web users unawares. But it also helped inspire both Twitter and Facebook to encrypt traffic to their site and prevent such eavesdropping.

“People might use it in dangerous ways,” Avraham says with a shrug. “I really hope not. But I know this might be the risk to help people increase their security, and that’s our goal.”

The Motorola Atrix is Awesome!

I had only tried it for a day, and it's everything I had expected and more.  Initially, I thought that the lapdock is needed to run the webtop, but to my surprise, the standard dock can run it too even without the keyboard.  This is great.  I had just finished watching Naruto on my HDTV using the Atrix to stream the video on the Firefox browser.  Also, the camera was not as bad as some had reviewed.  The video was crisp and clear on my TV.  720p is enough.

There were 2 cons so far, it is the battery life and the fingerprint sensor.  I wondered if I had been using it too much today, and it could not last me till the end.  Perhaps, I just had to give it sometime for my usage patterns to stabilize. Another one was the fingerprint sensor, somehow it didn't work just now.  I had to reboot the phone again to reinitialise it, to get it recognizing my prints again.

This is one smartphone that is well worth the wait.  It's also cheaper than the Samsung Galaxy SII.  Woot!

Will write more on it after I had tried it thoroughly.  :D

My Atrix is Here!

It's finally here!  I received the phone from the postman last night.  What a big box.  :D

It has the docking station and remote too.  This is great.

Going to be busy to migrate my contacts and trying it out.

Motorola Atrix on the way

I had purchased the Motorola Atrix, and it's on the way to be delivered.  So excited over it.  It's  $448, and with $30 promotion discount, and 5% from my credit card rebate, it's less than $400.  I guessed this would be much a value-for-money kind of buy for me.  Goodbye Samsung Galaxy S II.  :D

Motorola Atrix vs HTC Sensation - Dialaphone

Samsung Galaxy S2 vs HTC Sensation

by CHRIS on APRIL 13, 2011

Here we have what people consider the two best smartphones coming to the Android market: the Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation. We’ll run through the specs and see who’s the winner of these two powerhouse.

Samsung Galaxy S2 vs HTC Sensation

Starting off with the processors, both the Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation carries a more than capable CPU. Both running at 1.2GHz and the main advantages the HTC Sensation has is dual LED flash and higher resolution (540×960) while the Samsung Galaxy S2 has only one LED and at 480×800 resolution. The Samsung Galaxy S2 comes out on top for benchmark score against the HTC Sensation by quite a bit as revealed by the video review below.

HTC Sensation is a close competitor, but when compared to the Samsung Galaxy S2 spec for spec, the Galaxy S2 still slightly on top but not much. Briefly running through the specs, the Samsung Galaxy S2 packs 1GB RAM while the Sensation only has 768MB RAM. On to storage, Galaxy s2 has options for 16GB and 32GB internal storage and the Sensation with only 1GB.

Further more, a Super AMOLED display and 2MP front camera for the Samsung versus a S-LCD Display and 1.2MP front camera for HTC (both androids have 8MP rear camera). Moving on, battery being a concern for many users, the Samsung Galaxy S2 has a bigger battery at 1650 mAh vs HTC Sensation’s 1520 mAh, not only that the Galaxy S2 is lighter at 4.1 ounces vs 5.2 ounces, and finally to top it off the Samsung Galaxy S2 supports NFC.

Both smartphones come installed with Android 2.3 Gingerbread (HTC Sense for the Sensation and TouchWiz for the Galaxy S2). The Samsung Galaxy S2 is expected to release May 1st for UK and over the span of the next few months for the rest of the countries as they slowly roll them out. The HTC Sensation 4G is expected to be released on June 15 exclusively to T-Mobile.

All in all, both androids are great choices, most of the features and such comes down to personal preferences. You can’t go wrong with either choices as they are both superior smartphones in the market today and definitely the best money can buy!

iPhone輻射勁 放褲袋變無能？

Seems like Samsung Galaxy SII has the lowest radiation when calling.
HTC Desire HD has the lowest radiation when surfing using data.

Both iPhone and iPad has the highest radiation when calling or surfing using data.

Watch out!

Motorola Atrix 4G vs Samsung Galaxy S2 – Shootout For The Ultimate Android Smartphone

Samsung’s Galaxy S2, officially known as SII, will be one of the premier Android phones to be released this year. However, the other heavy weight in the market is the Motorola Atrix 4G which will offer it stiff competition. As we reported recently, Galaxy S2 is heading for a release in the imminent future. Hence, here we will do a feature by feature comparison to see which one these next generation smartphones comes out at the top. Hopefully, this will make your decision of where to spend your money a little easier. Anyway, here we go with this shoot out !!

CPU:

Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) - Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, Mali-400MP GPU, Orion chipset

Motorola Atrix - Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 chipset

Hmm, a very close call, both of these smartphones offer dual core processors with very strong graphics processing, which should easily suffice for even next generation Android Games. It will be hard to say which one will score higher in benchmarks, until galaxy s2 actually becomes available. But for all practical purposes, they appear to be equal.

Winner: Draw

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Screen and Display:

Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) - 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus display – 800 x 480

Motorola Atrix - 4.0 inches qHD Display – 960 x 540

On the display side, Galaxy S2 offers its trademark Super AMOLED display which was one of the main selling points for the original Galaxy. Atrix has a sllightly smaller screen size, but it does offer a higher pixel density. And for most people, 4 inch is an adequate screen size. This will be a very subjective choice, but I think the Super AMOLED display gives it a slight edge, as anyone who has seen Avatar on the original Galaxy knows that it is a true beauty.

Winner: Samsung Galaxy S2

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Camera:

Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) – 8 Mega-Pixel Rear and 2 MP front facing camera

Motorola Atrix – 5 MP Rear and 0.3 MP front facing camera

Clear winner for the Galaxy S2, with its high spec camera. Also, it will feature HD video recording at 1080p at 30fps. Atrix may offer this via future upgrades, but out of the box it is at 720p.

Winner: Samsung Galaxy S2

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RAM and Storage:

Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) – 1 GB RAM, 16 and 32 GB Versions available with support for external SD Card

Motorola Atrix – 1 GB RAM, 16 GB Internal storage with support for external SD Card

Not much to say, very evenly matched.

Winner: Draw

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Operating System:

Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) – Shipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Motorola Atrix – Shipped with Android 2.2 Froyo

A tricky one, Galaxy S2 ships with Android 2.3 and owes a lot of its feature to that. Atrix ships with 2.2 Froyo but will be upgradeable in the future to Gingerbread. On the surface, Galaxy appears to be the winner, but Samsung has a really bad history with providing upgrades and support. A lot of Samsung Galaxy users have not received the Froyo update yet, with Motorola having better customer support.

Winner: Draw

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Weight And Size:

Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) – Dimensions: 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm, Weight: 116 g

Motorola Atrix – Dimensions: 117.8 x 63.5 x 10.1 mm, Weight: 135 g

Atrix is slightly heavier and thicker, thanks to its high capacity battery but is certainly more pocket-able. Samsung pays the price for its large display over here.

Winner: Motorola Atrix

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Battery Life:

Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) – Li-Ion 1650 mAh

Motorola Atrix – Lithium 1930 mAh

Atrix is again the clear winner here, featuring one of the highest capacity battery in any smartphone to date.

Winner: Motorola Atrix

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Extra Features/Miscellaneous:

Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) – NFC technology and SIP support, TouchWiz UI v4.0, Front Home Button, Poor GPS functionality in the past

Motorola Atrix – Finger print security, Support for multiple Docks

Ahh, most of the features by Samsung are courtesy of Gingerbread and will be made availble soon in the Atrix. But Atrix has some really cool hardware features, like the ability to connect to a Laptop dock which really sets it apart.

Addendum: NFC is a hardware based technology and will not be available on Atrix despite release of HoneyComb. Also Atrix features a signed boot loader which means that you cannot install custom ROMs or partitions on Atrix. This will change the winner to Galaxy SII. Thanks to reader Joe for reminding of that.

Winner: Samsung Galaxy S2

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So the winner is …..  Drum Rolls Please …. Samsung Galaxy SII !!! Yes folks, Samsung comes out on the top with a slight margin in this interesting battle of Galaxy S2 vs Atrix 4G. There were 3 draws, Atrix won in 2 categories and Samsung in 3. However, of course, this is all very subjective. Atrix features strong support for peripheral which might be very important for some people. For people whom appearance and screen size matters the most, Samsung Galaxy S2 will be a more appealing option despite all the features. Also at this point, we do not know much about which US carrier will support Galaxy and what will be the contracts like. That may matter the most depending on where you live and availability.

Complete Specs Sheet for Samsung Galaxy S2, Motorola Atrix